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Charles Benjamin

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Biography

Apparently a US slave-owner in Demerara.

  1. Olivia, the widow of Charles Benjamin, died 07/08/1898 aged 79 at Kensington. In 1881 she had been living 'mother-in-law' aged 61 born United States with Henry S. Bascom 'West India planter' and his family at 10 Gloucester Place London.

Sources

  1. London Morning Post 12/08/1898, from 'Persons affili[t]ated w/Guyana in British Newspapers', http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nyggbs/Transcriptions/LisaB/DeathsTrans2015.pdf [accessed 04/04/2016]; 1881 census online.

Further Information

Spouse
Olivia

Associated Claims (2)

British Guiana 2287 (Water Street)
£4,802 8s 5d
Awardee
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British Guiana 2282 (Spring Garden)
£3,421 16s 4d
Awardee
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Associated Estates (1)

The dates listed below have different categories as denoted by the letters in the brackets following each date. Here is a key to explain those letter codes:

  • SD - Association Start Date
  • SY - Association Start Year
  • EA - Earliest Known Association
  • ED - Association End Date
  • EY - Association End Year
  • LA - Latest Known Association
1832 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner
Spring Garden [ British Guiana | Demerara ]

Relationships (1)

Charles Benjamin
Other relatives
Park Benjamin
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Both men served as attorneys to J.O. Lincoln and his heirs in British Guiana. Charles Benjamin was almost certainly related to Park Benjamin, but how has not yet been established by...